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Post by alib18 on Aug 19, 2007 19:20:07 GMT
Carrie by Stephen King
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Post by alib18 on Aug 24, 2007 12:53:32 GMT
Finished Carrie, now reading Misery after watching the film the other week.
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Post by Sefiros on Aug 29, 2007 9:57:30 GMT
The End Of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
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Post by nirvana on Aug 29, 2007 22:08:53 GMT
Finished reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X the other week which was one of the best books I've ever read. Now reading The Man on Platform Five by Robert Llewellyn which has been very good so far.
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Post by Baxter on Aug 30, 2007 9:34:40 GMT
"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold.
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Post by Pitt on Aug 31, 2007 20:43:05 GMT
Runelords, Vol. 3: Wizardborn, by David Farland.
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Post by Pombar on Sept 1, 2007 20:11:17 GMT
Bravo, Runelords is a great series.
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Post by Ryan James on Sept 1, 2007 20:29:56 GMT
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Took me two days to read it (including time spent not reading it), and my head has been pounding nonstop ever since.
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Post by Pitt on Sept 1, 2007 20:33:26 GMT
Bravo, Runelords is a great series. True. It's not every series that does stuff like rob the heroine of her galmourous appearance and steal her father's intellect, reducing him to a self-soiling half-wit. Not to mention killing the father of the main hero in a brutal fashion, have the heroes suffer constant Pyrrhic victories in battle and have the main villain castrate one of the protagonists at the end of the second book. Yes, it's good. I hear they're making a film.
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Post by Pombar on Sept 1, 2007 20:49:16 GMT
Been hearing that for years though. It does get rather anime though, what with people getting (over) 9000 or so of each attribute. But man, does the 4th book ever break conventions.
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Post by Pitt on Sept 1, 2007 21:09:10 GMT
Borenson: "Gaborn, what does your Earth Sight say about Raj Ahten's endowment level?" Gaborn: "IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAND!" Borenson: "WHAT, NINE THOUSAND?"
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Post by Samface on Sept 4, 2007 12:25:16 GMT
Finished The Dark Tower last night. Very good book, excellent series as a whole (although book 4 was far too long). Guess I need to start on the comic prologue now...
Also I am waiting on my copy of Bryan O'Malley's Lost at Sea which was meant to drop through the door this morning but didn't because life is hollow and filled with disappointment.
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Post by Baxter on Sept 5, 2007 11:22:19 GMT
"Atonement" by Ian McEwan.
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Post by Pitt on Sept 7, 2007 17:45:16 GMT
I'm thinking of giving Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory series a go. Has anyone read it? Is it any good?
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Post by Samface on Sept 7, 2007 18:00:47 GMT
Never heard of it, sorry. "Harry Turtledove" is a brilliant name, though.
I'm on Michael Palin's Full Circle, which tied in to the series from '96 or so where he visited as many countries that border the Pacific as possible. It's pretty good, but thus far Around the World in 80 Days is better. Also I got Bryan O'Malley's Lost at Sea in the post yesterday. It's good, it's frequently excellent, but it's no Scott Pilgrim.
(But then, what is?)
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Post by Pombar on Sept 7, 2007 18:06:09 GMT
I think it stands on an equal level with SP, if only for the fact that it hits many nails on the head about teenage insecurity and the like.
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Post by Samface on Sept 7, 2007 18:32:47 GMT
Hmm - I think it can be a little forced in places. But yeah, it's the sort of book I wish I'd read when I was 18.
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Post by Pombar on Sept 7, 2007 19:21:48 GMT
Read it at 17 as a somewhat down if not outright depressed teen whose social life consisted of the internet and the occasional classroom conversation, so I'm probably hugely biased in my fanaticism for it. SP thankfully doesn't suffer from the whole 'you experience it best at this age' thing, or at least the range at which it's awesome is pretty darn wide. There just isn't an excuse not to read it. Spurred on by this, I read Lost At Sea at lunch and after school today, and am starting Scott Pilgrim Volume 1 as I type.
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Post by Samface on Sept 18, 2007 14:52:16 GMT
Currently on Hokkaido Highway Blues by Will Ferguson, an account of his hitch-hiking Japan south to north on the premise of following the cherry blossom. It's excellent.
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Post by Sefiros on Sept 18, 2007 22:05:20 GMT
Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena
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Post by Pitt on Sept 20, 2007 16:23:37 GMT
Read Harry Turtledove's How Few Remain. Now I'm reading the first sequel, Great War: The American Front.
Very good books. I'd recommend them to anyone who enjoys history.
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Post by Feniiku on Sept 23, 2007 18:41:25 GMT
Finished the book thief. And I can see why it has 'No. 1 international bestseller' on the cover. It's a very good story, written in an intriguing manner. Set in Nazi Germany, it's narratted by Death and tells of a little girl named Lisel and her life in Himmel Street. I reccomend picking it up if you can find it, it's well worth it.
Started reading Temeraire now. Yay dragons :3
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Post by Rory. on Sept 23, 2007 18:53:59 GMT
Riding Shotgun. The autobiography of Rory Gallaghers ex-bassist, signed by the ex-bassist and ex-drummer It's a very interesting read.
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Post by Super Sonic on Sept 23, 2007 20:05:03 GMT
Just read The Inside Ring by Mike Lawson and am now reading Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton.
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Post by Samface on Sept 24, 2007 18:36:16 GMT
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, by Steven Sherrill. Excellent stuff, absolutely nails having basically no social skills whatsoever.
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